Sentences with phrase «russian use of their platforms»

We need to see all the data these companies have related to Russian use of their platforms to intervene in our elections.

The episode marks another blow to Facebook's reputation during a period of growing scrutiny over Russian use of the platform to interfere in American politics.

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In terms of other technical IT platforms, an FSB cyber operative flagged up the «Telegram» enciphered commercial system as having been of especial concern and therefore heavily targeted by the FSB, not least because it was used frequently by Russian internal political activists and oppositionists.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports on comments from Facebook Vice President of Facebook Ads Rob Goldman about the Russian use of political ads on the platform.

Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Jim Jordan of Ohio will use the House floor as a platform to raise awareness on the resolution they introduced last week, which claims Mueller's impartiality is compromised because of a separate investigation of Russian nationals during his tenure as FBI director.

The Cambridge Analytica blunder aside, Facebook has grappled with a slew of other missteps in recent months, including Russian actors using the platform to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election and a string of measurement errors.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

Facebook has already testified about how its platform was used by Russian propagandists ahead of the 2016 election, but the company never put Zuckerberg himself in the spotlight with government leaders.

The world's largest social network had already been the target of lawmakers who say it hadn't done enough to inform the public about Russian operatives using its ad platform to sway U.S. voters.

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Facebook, already facing deep questions over the use of its platform by those seeking to spread Russian propaganda and fake news, is facing a renewed backlash after the news about Cambridge Analytica.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

That was the same approach the company used on Capitol Hill this past fall, when it sent its top attorney, Colin Stretch, to brief Congress about the prevalence of Russian propaganda, to include paid ads and inauthentic accounts, on its platform.

Zuckerberg has kept a low profile as controversy over the political uses of the Facebook platform — especially by a Russian disinformation campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential race — has intensified.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

In 2016, the central securities depository of the Russian Federation (NSD) announced a pilot project, based on the Nxt blockchain 2.0 platform, that would explore the use of blockchain - based automated voting systems.

Congress has been examining how Russians used social media platforms to influence the 2016 election, and Klobuchar's legislation would require disclosure of who's paying for political ads on social media networks including Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google.

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11:45 am ET: The companies were asked when they first became aware of Russian state actors using their platforms for nefarious activities.

Since beginning its exploration of blockchain over a year ago, the NSD has published the results of an early test for a proxy voting solution using the NXT blockchain and - as revealed on stage - has sold a $ 10 million bond by Russian telecom MegaFon using the open - source Hyperledger Fabric platform.

Researchers said that those tools are still widely available and that while the company has worked to remove fake accounts and stem the flow of disinformation, it has refused to let outside researchers examine the data on how Russian actors used the platform so effectively.

«In October 2017, we removed Kaspersky's anti-virus software from the list of products that we make available to these users,» Facebook wrote in responses released by the panel from Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's Google following the companies» congressional testimony last November about Russian attempts to use their platforms to spread disinformation during the 2016 US election.

Congress has been examining how Russians used social media platforms to influence the 2016 election, and Klobuchar's legislation would require disclosure of who is paying for political ads on social media networks including Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Google, a division of Alphabet Inc..

But the surge of political and regulatory scrutiny over the weekend again turned a harsh spotlight on a company that has been scrambling to protect its reputation since allegations emerged about Russian agents using the social media platform in an attempt to manipulate American voters during the 2016 election season and beyond.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)-- Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and...